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How a parent responds to their child’s needs can affect more than just behaviour. New research from UBC’s faculty of medicine and BC Children’s Hospital…

Dear Kindred, Read the August 2021 issue of Kindred's newsletter here. What did we do here at Kindred this summer? As Stephanie Mines encourages us to do…

David Metler shares the Kindred Fellowship's What We Did This Summer Report below: https://youtu.be/vNCVeccNqW8 In the video above, you will meet David…

Listen to the interview above with Genevieve Vaughan on the Maternal Gift Economy. Kindred Media · Are We Homo Donos? Gift-Givers? Genevieve Vaughan on the…

Watch an outtake of Stephanie Mines' presentation to the Kindred Fellowship Program. https://youtu.be/DJEX_2aOM3g In this outtake from her…

An infant’s microbiome influences motor, social and cognitive development. KEY POINTS Lack of breast milk in the first year is associated with…

For many years I have been trying to bring to light a view of the gift economy based on mothering, a free provisioning economy that is fundamentally neither…

The capacities of the adolescent brain can invigorate adults KEY POINTS Developmental neuroscience opens a positive view of adolescent brains.Adults…

Excerpted from Bram’s unpublished essay called “What Must Be Done” About Marvin Bram: Marvin Bram is professor of history retired from Hobart and…

If the pandemic has done anything to me, it has stripped me of what I thought was real and important. It has removed any last drop of energy that I might use…